Fence-making tool.



W. S. GUINTER. rmwn MAKING TOOL.

APPLICATION FILED JANA, 1908.

Patented Mar. 2, 1909.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM S. GUINTER, OF ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS.

FENCE-MAKING TOOL.

No. 913,725. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented March 2, 1909.

Application filed January 4, 1908. Serial No. 409,330.

To all whom it may concern: thus insure its positive extraction. The ter Be it known that I, WVILLIAM S. GUINTER, minal portions of the claw constitute staple a citizen of the United States, residing at pullers, and for this purpose are only Rockford, in the county of lVinneb-ago and slightly curved and are pointed, so that 60 State of Illinois, have invented a new and should the staple to be extracted lie close to useful Fence-Making Tool, of which the folthe post, the pointed terminals of the claw lowing is a specification. may readily be worked thereunder.

This lnvention relates to fence making The combined splicer. and nail cutter tools. shown in Fig. 2 comprises a handle or 5 10 The object of the invention is to provide lever 10 and a head 11, the latter being apa tool of this character which shall, in a proximately circular in shape. The head novel and practical manner, combine the is provided in its interior with a keyholefeatures of a wire cutter, wire splicer, staple shaped slot 12, and in its periphery with a and nail puller, the various parts of the tool notch 13 having oppositely inclined cutting 70 being so disposed relatively to each other edges 14 and with a curved notch or slot 15 that in use one will not interfere with the the end wall of which is disposed approxiother. mately opposite the like wall of the notch WVith the above and other objects in view, 13. As will be seen by reference to Fig. 2, as will appear as the nature of the invention the eye of the slot 12 is eccentrically dis- 75 is better understood, the same consists in the posed relatively of the head, so that when novel construction and combination of parts the attachment is combined with a stud 15 of a fence making tool, as will be hereinprojecting from one side of the poll, the after fully described and claimed. stud will occupy a position approximately In the accompanying drawing forming at the center of the head. This stud may be so a part of this specification, and in which secured to the poll in any preferred manner, like characters of reference indicate correpreferably by a threaded connection, so that sponding parts, Figure 1 is a perspective in the event of breakage, it may readily be view of the tool as it appears when employed replaced. By the employment of the key as a wire cutter. Fig. 2 is a view in elevahole slot 12, the implement t can be readily as tion of the combined Wire splicer and wire connected with and disconnected from the cutter removed from the hammer. Fig. 3 hammer poll, according to the character of is a transverse sectional view through the work that is to be done. claw of the hammer taken on the line 33 lVhen used as a wire cutter, the wire is of Fig. 1. Fig. lis a longitudinal sectional positioned in the notches 7 and 8 of the 35 view taken onthe line 4 l of Fig. 1, the hammer head, and in the notch 13 of the imcombined wire splicer and wire cutter being plement -l, and upon the latter being turned removed. upon the stud 15 as a pivot, the cutting The implement embodies a hammer head edges 11, or one of them, will force the wire 1 provided with a claw 2, a handle or helve against one of the cutting edges of the notch 4o 3, and a combined wire cutter and splicer, 8, and thus effect shearing.

designated generally 4. The poll 5 of the When two wires are to be spliced, the hammer is extended outward beyond the eye stationary and loose wires are positioned in to form two parallel flanges 6 each of which the crotch of the claw, the stationary wire is provided with a notch or seat 7 and S, is caused to enter the slot 15, and the loose 45 respectively, in which the wire to be severed wire to pass through the eye of the keyhole is held. The walls of the notch 7 are paralslot 12, and upon a circular motion being lel with each other, while the walls of the imparted to the implement l, positive twist notch 8 are oppositely inclined to provide ing together of the two wires will be effected. double cutting edges, as will readily be un- The improvements herein defined while 50 derstood by reference to Fig. 1. The memsimple in character will be found thoroughly bers of the claw 2 are herein shown as havefficient for the purposes designed, and will ing their outer faces flat, and the slot of the result in the presentation of a highly duraclaw from its crotch outward for any deble and useful farm implement. sired distance is provided with oppositely I claim L 55 beveled inwardly projecting ribs 9 that are 1. The combination with a hammer head adapted to fit under the head of a nail and having its poll provided with alined seats one of which is furnished with oppositelyinolined cutting edges, and with a laterallyprojeoting stud, of a member having a head provided in its interior with a key-hole shaped slot to engage with the stud and in its periphery with a notch having cutting edges and adapted to register with one of the seats in the poll.

2. A hammer head having its poll extended beyond its eyes to provide a pair of flanges, each having a seat, one of which is provided with oppositely inclined cutting edges, a laterally projecting stud carried by the poll and a member having a head provided in its interior with a key-hole shaped slot to engage the stud and in its periphery with a notch having oppositely inclined cutting edges to coact with the like edges of the seatof the flange.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

XVILLIABI S. GUINTER.

Witnesses S. M. ST. PEN, E. W. MYERS. 

